No more frakking BSG until 2009?!
I mean seriously, what the frak? Why the frak do we have to wait until frakking 2009 for the final frakking season of Battlestar frakking Galactica. Those motherfrakking skinjobs, and I know they’re Cylons or they wouldn’t do this to us, really like to frakking torture us diehard frakking fans, don’t they. Frakkers! Wow, that does make it incredibly frakking easy to drop frakking curse words all the frakking time without really frakking cussing. How frakking liberating is that!
But back to business. Executive producer Ronald D. Moore spoke at a Wednesday night screening of this Friday’s summer finale and broke the news that the remainder of this fourth and final season of BSG probably wouldn’t air until early 2009. The show just doesn’t want to have to face off against the new fall slates on the networks or football and baseball, which I guess I can understand. Why not wait until January so all you have to deal with is those crappy shows nobody watches like American Idol and 24? And nobody will be interested in the build-ups to the season finales of shows like Lost and Heroes. It’s a frakking no-brainer!
New WALL-E Trailer with Live Action Humans?
Disney has released a strange new trailer for Pixar’s WALL-E. “Meet The Bots” introduces us to the many bots we’ll meet in Andrew Stanton’s film. The strange part is that it begins as a promotional video from the Buy N Large Corporation. For a few seconds we get to see what live-action humans look like on the luxury starliner (before they became giant couch potato blobs, or course). It looks very Happy Feet-ish.
Stanton confirmed last year at WonderCon that “There is a live action element involved” but wouldn’t reveal more, only insisting that “We’re not doing anything like Happy Feet.” Fred Willard later revealed that he appears on a television monitor as the live-action spokesman of Buy N Large. So it’s clear that the human characters that left earth use to look like live action humans (as opposed to the animated Captain played by Jeff Garlin). And we have since seen that WALL-E watches a live-action version of the musical Hello Dolly in his trailer full of human collectibles. So I’m very curious to see if this is actually part of the film itself.
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I want to know: who the *$&!#$@ watches According to Jim?
It seems like the number one example that anyone seems to give when discussing the all-important topic of “What’s Wrong with Sitcoms?” is According to Jim. And with good reason: it’s not funny. It’s a paint-by-numbers script full of lame jokes. Jim Belushi’s character is the epitome of the fat, lazy husband that doesn’t do anything to deserve his unblievably hot wife. Oh, and did I say it’s not funny? I did? Well I’ll say it again: it’s not funny.
But, for some reason, ABC likes this show, despite its declining ratings. How do I know? Well, Jim Belushi mentioned the show’s pickup for the fall when he was on the Howard Stern show today. This means the show will be entering it’s sixth season — and has enough episodes to hit the syndication jackpot — while innovative shows like Sons & Daughters, supposedly a favorite of ABC executives, gets the ax.
So, does anyone here actually watch According to Jim? And, if so, why do you like it? I’m extremely curious as to what you see in this show year after year. Is it the family element? Unrequited crush on Courtney Thorne-Smith? I want to know!
Samantha Who?: The Gallery Show
(S01E13) “I can get a guy by tomorrow.” - Samantha
This line may not have been the funniest one of the episode but it had major implications for both Sam and Todd. What if she hadn’t been able to find a date for the gallery show? What if she found a guy who turned out to be prince charming and not a mugger? Those two possibilities could have totally changed the ending of the episode, meaning that Todd could still be thinking of Chloe instead of Sam. Luckily for us, Sam found Jerry O’Connell, who was trying to get in his car using a hanger since his Carpoolers friends left him on the curb, and he turned out to not be the guy for our Sam.
This episode was not the best of the series so far (it felt like a filler episode to me) but it did offer us some nice lines from Regina, intensified the war between Good and Evil Dena and Andrea, and definitely put Sam and Todd on the path to coupledom.
I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record when Regina is concerned but you have to admit that the character rocks! Even if she wasn’t invited to the art show, she decided to go because “she didn’t sleep with Todd.” She watches, or more precisely spies on, Samantha. At the art show, she is certain someone is bisexual just because she believes the stereotype that a lot of artists are bisexuals. She buys a bunch of photographs of trees to make up for Sam and Howard’s behavior at the art show. I’m starting to agree with Sam, Regina is also suffering from some sort of brain damage! But I’m happy she is because if she wasn’t suffering from it, Regina would be a boring character.
In response to my Melissa McCarthy: In the Limelight post, zippersgirl said that she hoped they would flesh the supporting roles out more fully. I’m pretty sure the show was cautious in developing Andrea and Dena until they got word that SW? would return for a second season. In “The Gallery Show,” they did start to develop them a bit more. The scene at the bookstore added to what both girls prefer in men (Dena goes for guys in the Sci Fi section while Andrea wants to hook Samantha up with an art critic who can destroy Todd) and set the stage for the war between the two. Now that Dena is in a relationship, she has some balls. The pre-Chapman Dena would have never talked to Andrea the way the dating-Chapman Dena did. Can you believe Dena thinks she is a relationship expert all of the sudden?! And now that she got all of her concerns and emotions out (poor guy in the box who had to suffer through it), Dena will be a force to be reckoned with. The war has just started! Who will win?
Thanks to Rance Craig (the character played by Jerry O’Connell), Todd’s feelings for Sam came back rushing. Even if Sam didn’t want to admit it out loud this week, she is still in love with him. The next episodes will be interesting as the duo will have to officially address these feelings and decide what to do about them.
What Samantha learned about herself this week:
- Old Sam posed semi-nude for Todd.
- Howard tried to protect his daughter on prom night but it didn’t turn out the way he thought it did.
- Old Sam was mugged by Craig.
- Old Sam learned how to open a car using a hanger.
Other tidbits of interest:
- Howard finally got some meat. Sadly for him, he learned that his little girl was a grown up woman.
- Rance? The first male name who comes to Samantha’s mind is Rance?! There must be an Old Sam story behind this because that’s not a popular name that comes up to mind easily.
- About two weeks ago, I said that Chloe wouldn’t let Todd go so easily and that I expected her to do nasty stuff to Todd and Sam if both got back together. After seeing this week’s episode, I think my prediction is likely to happen (unless the show doesn’t have the money to pay the actress to stick around or if she isn’t available). Chloe was quite the angry woman at the art show. Can you believe she showed her breasts in front of everyone?
- Poor Todd will forever remember his first gallery show not for the people who attended or for the photographs he sold. He’ll remember it because of Craig the mugger, Sam’s scene, Howard removing Sam’s photo from the display and Chloe’s tantrum.